If anyone's still looking for a fix, I found, in my case, the extra play was where the rectangular metal lug sets in the bottom gear. I cut metal shims from a soup can lid and tucked them between both sides of the plastic gear and the metal lug. It took out some of the play, but the top gear on the horizontal shaft needed a shim too. I used a piece of thin wire long enough to wrap around the drive handle shaft and hammered it to the necessary thickness to take out the play. Remeshing the gears takes some attention. I think I got it right on the 3rd try.

these motors are legendary.. from a time when the average guy could fix it.. just got a 9.9 and excited to restore it.

My experience is that most of the time, the slop in the throttle linkage is due to wear of that nylon bearing in which sits that vertical thoothed bearing in which the vert8cal throttle arm is inserted. To further smooth out the throttle movement, you'd ought to lift up the armature plate, clean and grease the surfaces that mate between that plate and the engine block. Old grease caking up there will impair the plate's rotation which, by the way, provides spark advance to the ignition. Regards !

Nice vid. Is there anything special I should know in order to put the magneto back on? I need to remove it, but I'm worried about messing up the ignition timing. TIA

I have the same exact problem on my Evinrude, problem is where can I find a source for those parts?

Did actually replace anything or just clean and regrease,?? I have one with lots of slop in the throttle

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